The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-18

rhe directors OF the st. Paul road
have declared DIVIDENDS OF q and ~
per cent on the common and preferred
stocks. The gross earnings for the
past year were $24, lis, 403, and the net
surplus 81, 00O, 099.
The Rock Island road, through the
failure of its negotiations for the use
of the Kansas Pacific track between
Topeka and Kansas City, Is about to
construct line on the north side OF
the Kansas river.
The Chinese minister at Washington
one of the richest men of his race,
took with him to photographer jew
els worth $1,O00.O00 and dozen
changes of costume, and had himself
taken in different positions.
A jury at Charlotte, Michigan, has
given judgment against that city for
$3.50 to James Cathcart, a captain in
the Salvation army. who was recently
locked up fourteen hours for leading
parade in violation of orders by the
authorities.
The London Standard has received
the following dispatch in cipher: IAN
unsuccessful attempt has been made to
assassinate the cZar." The dispatch
gives no details, but comes. the Stand
ard says, from an entirely trustworthy
source.
in. Webster, an aged citizen of Des
MOines, while on his way to visit his
daughter in San Francisco, fell off q
train at night in the vicinity of Ell
PasO, and lay for hours alongside the
track with broken arm. When
taken up he lived but half a day.
Henry Jansen. the Chicago wife
murderer, after being confined in the
crank cell at the Joliet penitentiary on
bread and water for thirteen days,
that he had been playing the insane
dodge TO secure transfer to an asylum.
A lad of 18 years, employed as a
messenger by Wall street firm was
on Mondav sent to bank with some
cash and $29, $50 in checks. He joined
some tramps in Brooklyn, and when
the currency was spent they tore up
the checks. The entire party is in
arrest.
Z. A. Randolph, talented and en-
ergetic cOlOred lawyer OF Richmond,
is endeavoring to organize the negroes
of Virginia for the advancement of
their industrial interests, with the in
tention of supporting whichever po-
litical party leads in the path OF pro-
gress.
The common pleas court at Column
bus, Ohio, refused to discharge Mrs.
Lucy Parsons on writ of habeas
corpus, but reduced her bail to 500.
She subsequently obtained bondsmen,
and left for Cincinnati. 1t is said that
she received $50 from the anarchist re-
lief fund of Chicago.
Nathan Fall, travelling sales
man, having been held to bail at Den
yer for larceny, accompanied con-
stable to the third floor of the chamber
of commerce, whence he threw him
self over the banister. He fell seventy
feet, and so fractured his skull that
the brains protruded.
The Congregational ministers of
Chicago, at a meeting held Monday
morning, adopted resolutions highly
eulogizing the late Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher as an author. an orator. a
patriot, and a philanthropist. the
only ObjectOr was Rev. Henry IL. Ham,
mond, who is unable to ignore the
Tilden scandal.
At Howell, Mich, late OH Saturday
evening. the hardware store of +. N.
Monroe was exploded and set on fire.
The flames extended to an entire row
OF business houses, causing q loss OF
$4,000. Mr.. Monroe is leader in the
prohibition cause, and claims to have
received warning letters in February
that he would be burned out.
Mary Baker, of Menon, Indiana, has
not taken q mOuthful of food for 1913
days. Nothing keeps her alive but her
strong determination to recover her
health. She is merely a skeleton, and
her death has been hourly expected
for three months. Her parents have
promised that her remains shall be
spared from the dissecting-knife.
In New York, two weeks ago, a son
Of Charles +. Tiffany, the Union square
jeweler, secretly married poor young
dressmaker with handsome face.
When the fact reached the ears OF his
father he was disinherited. On the
advice of lifelong friend the bride
making provision tor his fair young
wife.
J It is stated on the most reliable
authority that Mr.. Robert Garrett will
continue to maintain the control OF
the Baltimore s. Ohio railroad under
an agreement with the syndicate
which will assume the controlling in
terest. Mr.. Alfred Sully Is generally
believed to be now out of the deal hi:
. option having expired, and those likely
to make the negotiation prefering u
make it without him.
The iron works of w. d. Wood .
Co., at McKeesport, Pa, have beef
closed down, and the employees dis
charged because they joined the Anal
gamated Association. The firm VIII
make an effort to secure men to 0per
ate their mill, but the discharged EN-
7 ployes claim that they will be unabi
t to do so. A lively time is expected. !
the attempt is made to resume wit
non-union wOrkmen.
At Des Moines, on Saturday NOR
ming, Constable Pierce undertook t
7 seize $25, 900 worth of liquor in tn
8 drug store of Hurlbut, Hess q Co., bu
< was ordered by the court to furnish
bond of indemnity, whereupon n
: decided only to guard the goods unit
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